Lewes railway station

The first station in Friars Walk opened on 8 June 1846 and was originally built as a terminus on the Brighton line; however, this station became inconvenient after an extension to opened on 27 June 1846. The new railway met the Brighton line at a junction just west of Lewes station towards , requiring trains serving Lewes to reverse. The director of the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway called the station "the most incomplete and injudicious station ever erected." On 2 October 1847, the Keymer Junction to Lewes line opened. New platforms, called Pinwell, were built opposite the terminus, west of the Hastings line branch. On 1 November 1857, a new station was built at the divergence of…

The station is located at a junction, where two western branches of the East Coastway line join to continue eastwards towards Eastbourne. Each of the two branches has its own set of platforms (the junction itself is immediately east of the station). The two sets of platforms together form a "V" shape (keilbahnhof), with a large open area and the main station building between platforms 2 and 3.